Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.